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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chungking, Chang Kia-ngau, close adviser to the Generalissimo and his chief economic expert at the Changchun negotiations, announced: "The taking over of the Northeast will proceed smoothly. Russian authorities have expressed their willingness to extend help...
National Government troops in pastel green uniforms shop for meat and vegetables on the streets of Suichung, some 30 miles northeast of the famed Chang Chen (The Great Wall). A Cantonese soldier, who looks everlastingly cold in Manchuria's November weather, carries a bunch of celery under his arm. Another plods across a field where white sheep graze on sparse brown stubble, with a pair of unwrapped pigs' feet dangling in one hand...
...Peiping restaurant one day this week the proprietor, a serene, middle-aged Chinese named Mr. Chang, sat down at our table and talked of China's need and longing for peace after its years of war. Then he said: "I think we will have civil war. I think it is God's opinion...
Plans & Men. In Mr. Chang's opinion, there is still one way for China to have peace: "It depends on how much you Americans help us. It depends on whether you give us the supplies we need." Mr. Chang does not expect that the U.S. will give China's Central Government all it needs to subdue the Communists militarily. Neither do U.S. military men in China. They expect to duck out as quickly as possible and go home. If they do, the U.S. must admit a great failure...
...that, in Mr. Chang's words, would leave China to God's opinion...